11 Temporary, Childcare jobs in North Queensferry, Fife

Fife's Education Directorate is one of the largest in Scotland. We strive to provide high quality learning and childcare services to children, young people and families. We want to ensure that all children and young people experience an inclusive, equitable and supportive environment that encourages them to have a strong voice in their learning and development. Our approach to improvement is rooted in our core values: Compassion, Ambition, Respect, and Equity. We strive to ensure that these core values are reflected in our dealings with children, young people, and families, to help us achieve our core purpose: Improving Life Chances for All. Supporting Statement As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked 'upload resumé'. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at

• Ways in which you have demonstrated that you can develop and support the ongoing delivery of effective processes to support organisational improvement
(Consider the following: how you have identified what a process needs to achieve; how you have approached the task of designing and/or supporting the delivery of an effective process; how you have contributed to structured approaches to support service improvement - e.g. service planning, policy development, etc.)
• Ways in which you have demonstrated the ability to work with different stakeholders to ensure that core processes are completed in a timely way, We are seeking to recruit a Policy Officer to support strategic planning, self-evaluation and improvement for the Education Directorate within Fife Council and the wider Fife Children's Services Partnership. The postholder will support and facilitate an ongoing programme of work to strengthen core processes, helping leaders to develop and evaluate their key strategies and improvement actions.
Your role as Policy Officer for Fife Children's Services / Education Directorate will include: Developing, delivering and facilitating a programme of quality planning and improvement activity, to provide support and challenge for strategy and policy across the Children's Services Partnership and Education Directorate. Managing and communicating information relating to strategy and policy effectively so that Directorate leaders and key stakeholders are kept up to date with developments and emerging issues. Collecting, analysing and interpreting research, performance, management, risk and other information. Identifying and managing a range of projects and activities relating to strategy and policy within areas of Children's Services and Education delivery in line with agreed standards and deadlines. The post will be line managed by the QIO (Strategic Planning & Performance) within the Education Directorate, Fife Council. A link to the role profile is included at the bottom of the advert. You will find out more about the job and the type of person we are looking for. Qualification, Registration and Skill Requirements,
• Role Profile - When preparing your supporting statement, review the role profile and think about how you meet the essential criteria
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  (Consider the following: how have you established positive and purposeful relationships with stakeholders; how your interpersonal and communication skills have helped you to ensure that key objectives are delivered on by others in a timely way; how you have planned, organised and helped to facilitate activities or events to meet organisational needs - e.g. engagement events, workshops, training sessions, etc)
• Ways in which you have demonstrated that you can manage a range of work priorities simultaneously, Educated to SCQF level 9 which includes a Degree or equivalent
• Relevant experience of policy or of organisational improvement/change management
• Significant experience of working in a policy or organisational improvement/change management capacity to support the improvement of service delivery
• Experience of structured approaches to improvement such as process mapping, service planning and performance reporting, strategy/policy development and evaluation
• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Ability to balance effective work programming, meeting deadlines and monitoring with flexibility in reacting to urgent work and changing priorities
• Time management skills
• Prioritisation skills
• Ability to operate effectively while under pressure and cope with uncertainty
  
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